Greetings, I'm still fooling around with this problem (scsi_mod.use_blk_mq=y fails to boot) but made *some* progress. I've found that it takes about 20-25 seconds after it dumps me into an emergency shell for the disk device nodes to show up, but when they do I can mount the root slice to /new_root, exit, and it boots and runs fine with blk-mq enabled. The thing is, it finds my root drive, which is attached to the first SATA port as /dev/sdcX, putting the 2 arrays I have on the controller as /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1 and no amount of BIOS fiddling seems to help. (board's an ASUS Crosshair-V Formula-Z) I've even disabled the controller as a boot candidate in CMOS and this behavior still exists. To further confound me; for grins I set up RHEL-7.5 on another drive and for some reason I don't understand, it finds the first SATA drive as /dev/sdaX. Is there some way to force Arch to do the same. I'm rather curious if that'll solve the boot issue I'm experiencing with this system. Many thanks! -- Randall DuCharme (Radio AD5GB) Powered entirely by Open Source software.
